An Erlang IDE and interactive shell

Jeff Massung massung at gmail.com
Sat May 1 22:56:08 EDT 2010


I'm not sure if anyone else here also happens to program in Erlang, but it's
something I do quite often and I really hate that there's no real good IDE
for it. Anyway, last weekend I decided to put one together in Rev... just
something simple that had syntax highlighting and would allow me to interact
with the Erlang shell like a simple REPL, but from the editor:

http://massj.on-rev.com/im/Erlang_IDE.png

Current feature set:

* Scratchpad mode where nothing is saved
* Syntax highlighting (as you type)
* Tabbed editor let's you edit many files at once
* Compile modules directly to a running Erlang shell
* Send any line of code in the editor directly to the REPL
* Errors from the shell are captured and turn into links to the source files
* See a list of all running, named processes

If no one here programs Erlang, well, just know that this was another
shining point for Rev... an entire editor in a weekend, communicating with
another programming language's REPL shell. But, should someone here be
interested in trying it out to help offer some wishlist items, etc, please
feel free to email me and let me know your operating system and I'll send
you a compiled version to test.

Cheers,

Jeff M.



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